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Ownership of Dights land
The Dight Family's mill and land along the Yarra River was passed to another person a lot in the late 1800's. -
European settlement
Charels Grimes from New South Whales is the first European to to explore the Yarra River area. He led an expadition party to explore the Yarra River. -
Melbourne settles
Melbourne eventually settled around the Yarra in 1835. Land was sub divided and sold. -
John Dight buys land
John Dight bought a block of land along the Yarra River for 481 pounds in Sydney. -
Dight moves to Port Phillip
John Dight worked as a flour miller and had his own mill near Campbell town in New South Whales. In April he notified his customers that he would be moving to Port Phillip. -
The first steam powered flour mill and water mill
In Melbourne the first steam powered flour mill was constructed.
Dight made his own mill powered by water, soon after, from bricks he bought in Tasmania.
Dight used a river to power his mill. -
Dight family stops flour milling
The Dight family gives up flour milling and properly sold their land -
Land is sold
The Dight's sold their property to Edwin Trennery. Edwin than subdivided the land he purchased. -
Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills
Until 1888 the Dights flour mill remained unoccupied. It stayed that that way until flour millers, Gillepsie, Aitken and Scott. They worked under the name 'Yarra Falls Roller Flour Mills. They built a new mill and associated other buildings at the site. -
Rebuilt and sold
The mill race was rebuilt using bluestone rocks from Dights water powered mill. It was then sold to the Melbourne Flour Milling Company. -
History of the weir
Dight Falls dates back to being around since 1895, when a timbre structure was made to give water to Melbourne Flour Milling Company.
A weir is a low dam built across a river to raise the water's level. -
Fire brings down the mill
For a final time the mill was passed onto a different owner before it was destroyed in a fire. The mill race and ruins still remain in Dight Falls. -
Rebuilding the weir
1918 dated the first rebuilding of the weir in the list of rebuilding's to come. This happened when some of it's structural timber washed away in flood waters. It was declared to be rebuilt by the Minister for Public Works. -
The weir is once again rebuilt
The weir experienced a breach in 1940 and needed to be once again reconstructed.
1.5 tonnes of rock were shared from the edge of the weir downstream. -
A breach in the weir from rainfall
Due to heavy rainfall in 1967 there was another breach in the weir. Most of it's decking and rock fill washed away due to the flood from all the rain. -
An upgraded weir
A year after the weir had breached from rainfall it had repairs. The change it received was getting concrete instead of timber decking. -
Fish and the Weir
In the year 1993 something was realised. It was acknowledged by Melbourne water that the weir was a barrier to fish migration. Due to this they constructed a rock fishway to allow the fish to move around the weir. This may have seemed to have worked at the time, the weir still acted as a barrier to native fish trying to migrate in the Yarra River.
